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NewsUN’s non-toxic targets unlikely to be achieved
The United Nations’ goal of achieving a ‘poison-free environment’ by 2020 won’t be met, Sweden’s chemicals agency warns
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Research
Artificial blood reaches the feline frontier
Space crystals of serum proteins help scientists make a red blood cell substitute for cats
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Jelly implant keeps an eye on body oxygen levels
A soft hydrogel implant – the first of which has survived in the foot of its inventor for four years – could detect circulatory problems that end in amputations
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Business
Fit for repurpose
Drugs that can be used for new indications offer a potentially cheaper pathway – but only if the investors can recoup their costs
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Problems of an ageing population addressed by extra UK funding
£300 million from fund will go towards research on dementia and personalised medicine
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Cuba: socialism, cigars and biotech
Nina Notman learns how biotechnology could potentially overtake cigars as Cuba’s most famous export
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Is industry ready for the serialisation shake-up?
The regulation few outside of pharma have heard about
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Five innovative technologies for health
How do healthcare products get from academic or start-up labs to the clinic? With a little help from places like the Centre for Process Innovation
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Driving pharmaceutical innovation
Making drugs is neither easy nor cheap – but catalysts, flow chemistry and a knowledge of intermolecular interactions can help
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Dissolving insoluble drugs
How spray drying can help with solubility and bioavailability challenges in drug development
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Platinum metal complexes in medicine
The history of cisplatin, the drug that is still the gold – or should that be platinum? – standard in cancer drugs
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Biosensors, wearables and virtual biotech
In a world that is racing ahead with new technologies, has the drug development process distanced itself from the patients it ultimately provides for?
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Harnessing electronic display technology in bioimaging
Less toxic than quantum dots, can conjugated polymer nanoparticles revolutionise bioimaging?
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Why biocatalysis is so on trend
Biocatalysis has come a long way from just beer – there’s an enzyme for nearly everything
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The ever-increasing attraction of biologics
Biologics promise targeted treatments for a range of conditions – if we can overcome the technological challenges
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Pharma and academia: a recipe for success
More big pharmaceutical companies are collaborating with universities
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The chemistry of the microbiome
Our gut bacteria are carrying out chemistry on our behalf, but without us knowing much about it. Now, scientists are starting to examine their enzymes
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Tofu works as tissue-engineering scaffold
Garlic, ginger and chilli swapped for fibroblast cells
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American Civil War era tea yields modern day medicine
Macrocyclisation strategy key to obtaining long known alkaloid with untapped potential
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English health service could recover £500m in drug costs from Pfizer
NHS England may have paid over the odds for pain drug whose patent has now been revoked
